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Teijin to Enhance BARLEYmaxTM Super Barley Marketing forBakery Applications in Europe
Tokyo, Japan, October 18, 2023 --- Teijin Limited announced today that it has agreed
with Sonneveld Group B.V., an international food ingredient and product manufacturer
specialized in the bakery and pastry sector, to sell Teijin’s highly nutritious
BARLEYmaxTM super barley in Europe.
Sonneveld Group is a part of Orkla, a leading industrial investment company with twelve
independent suppliers for consumer merchandises such as food, snacks, confectionery,biscuits, healthcare products. Sonneveld Group owns the European Bakery Innovation
Centre (EBIC), an open innovation center for the European bakery supply chain including
raw material suppliers, bakery equipment manufacturers, bakeries, retail, food service,bakery ingredient producers and European governments.
Utilizing Sonneveld Group’s sales channels, Orkla ’s groupwide business channels andEBIC’s network in the European industry, Teijin aims to encourage local food
manufacturers to adopt BARLEYmaxTM in place of conventional barley, mainly for use inbreads and other healthy food products mainly in Benelux and Scandinavian countries.
Going forward, Teijin expects to expand its sales channels in Europe including Franceand Germany as well as its existing channels in Spain, Portugal and Italy to enhance its
presence in the European market for functional food ingredients.
Sonneveld will showcase three BARLEYmaxTM breadmix prototypes with Teijin at iba
2023, the world’s leading trade fair for the baking and confectionery industry to be heldfrom October 22 to 26 in Munich, Germany.

BARLEYmaxTM breadmix prototypes

BARLEYmaxTM

BARLEYmaxTM has nearly 40 times more dietary fiber than white rice, compared to just
15 times more for rolled barley. It contains dietary fibers such as fructan, β-glucan andresistant starch, each of which enters the intestine at a different digestive rate to provide

food for good bacteria. BARLEYmaxTM also contains iron, zinc, niacin and vitamin B6, alltypically lacking in modern diets. Furthermore, BARLEYmaxTM offers an excellent
nutritional balance and contains less sugar than other grains, according to data cited in
the Standard Tables of Food Composition, part of the Japanese Food LabelingStandards. BARLEYmaxTM had a mild taste, neither bitter nor harsh, and is more savory
and sweeter than general barleys. It also is virtually odorless. With so many benefits, it
is increasingly being adopted for use in cooked rice, cereals, confectionery and breads
in Japan and other parts of Asia as well as in countries of other regions where healthconsciousness is rising, such as the United States and Australia. BARLEYmaxTM wasdeveloped in Australia by the national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific andIndustrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
In Europe, barley has been popular in history of food culture and widely used in breads
and cereals. Based on data from industry reports, research by Teijin indicates thatcompared to Japan, Europe’s barley demand is about 15 times greater for cereals andabout 30 times greater for breads. Furthermore, European sales of breads and cereals
containing dietary fiber are rising due to increasing health consciousness and demandfor high-performance food ingredients rich in dietary fiber.
Given that conventional barley has a distinctive taste that is not to everyone's liking,Teijin is assertive that Europe represents a highly promising market for the abundantdietary fiber, excellent nutritional balance and relatively sweet taste of BARLEYmaxTM.
Backed by the confidence and preliminary researches, Teijin signed an agency contract
with Emilio Peña S.A, (EPSA), a Spanish manufacturer, importer and distributor of foodadditives and ingredients in June 2022 and Garzanti Specialties S.p.A., a historical Italian
distributor company active in food ingredients and food supplements in September 2023
to engage BARLEYmaxTM in European market. Now BARLEYmaxTM is evaluated byseveral Spanish, Portuguese and Italian food manufacturers for use in breads, cereals
and other healthy food products.
About Sonneveld
Sonneveld Group, founded in 1956, is an international company that develops innovative
customer-specific solutions for the bakery sector and the closely-related food industry,
for and with its customers with which the company adds value to the whole chain andespecially to the customer. Sonneveld offers technical support aimed at realizing ideal
process, bread and pastry quality, it shares knowledge about bakery processes andingredients, it develops innovative bread and pastry concepts and it also supports
activities that enhance the bakery sector. Sonneveld uses its knowledge and expertise in terms of producing and supplying ingredients and products, as well as process-related
knowledge and market insights - to work with customers on high quality and/or userfriendly products and concepts.
Visit https://www.sonneveld.com/en/About the Teijin Group
Teijin (TSE: 3401) is a technology-driven global group with two core businesses: highperformance materials and healthcare solutions. Established in 1918 as Japan’s firstrayon manufacturer, Teijin today comprises some 170 companies employing 20,000
people in 20 countries. Through “Human Chemistry, Human Solutions,” Teijin relentlessly
strives to aims to be a company that supports the society of the future by protecting theglobal environment and addressing the needs of people and communities. Teijin posted
consolidated sales of JPY 1,018.8 billion (USD 7.6 billion) and total assets of JPY 1,242.4billion (USD 9.2 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023.
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